Lux Soap Ad, 1957

Soap Signs


Keeping clean all over, except for my heart and mind of course...

Soaps and shampoos, from the Thirties to the Fifties.

17 Feb 2011

1 favorite

200 visits

Lux Soap Ad, 1957

So if this was "...the beauty care of 9 out of 10 Hollywood stars," what cleansing agent was the 10th star using? From June's issue of Good Housekeeping.

07 May 2011

245 visits

Lux Soap Ad, 1958

Can't... stop...staring at... those bottles... From the July issue of McCall's magazine.

04 Jun 2011

243 visits

Dial Soap Ad, 1959

"Man-tailored, magnificently feminine." Uh, yeah. Is this like that killer episode of Pinky and the Brain in which Calvin Brain explained that his fashions were "Big, yet small... Dry and yet... slightly moist..."? From the May issue of Everywoman's Family Circle magazine.

14 Oct 2011

249 visits

Lady Wildroot Shampoo Ad, 1952

I've brought the floating supermodel heads back just in time for Halloween. Enjoy! From the September issue of Everywoman's magazine.

09 Jun 2012

186 visits

Palmolive Soap Ad, 1957

Those spiky lashed star-eyes mean she's about to manifest her unholy mutant powers! Run! From the June issue of Western Family magazine.

29 Aug 2012

217 visits

White Rain Shampoo Ad, 1952

"...and then I told him that I didn't care about his three other girlfriends. But that poster of Lenin in his den would have to go before he met my parents!" From the August issue of Sunset magazine.

11 Jan 2013

215 visits

White Rain Shampoo Ad, 1953

Well, I tried composing poetry with the wood, but this pencil seems to work so much better! From the September issue of Family Circle magazine.

08 Feb 2013

206 visits

Prell Shampoo Ad, 1953

"But, Darling, you know I can't possibly eat all these flowers at once! They'll go straight to my hips!" From the February issue of Good Housekeeping.

25 Feb 2013

264 visits

Palmolive Soap Ad, 1953

A young Richard Kiel makes his move at the Junior Prom! From the February issue of Good Housekeeping magazine.
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